Reproducing steps: 1. emacs -Q 2. open the shell file in attachment 3. M-x show-paren-mode 4. move cursor just before the char ‘\' in last line It also happens with the emacs master. In GNU Emacs 26.3.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin17.7.0, NS appkit-1561.61 Version 10.13.6 (Build 17G9016))  of 2019-11-21 built on jundeMac Repository revision: 3ee8ee8476fef2a5e8159f7597e36e0953295ce2 Windowing system distributor ‘Apple', version 10.3.1561 Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Setting up indent for shell type bash Indentation variables are now local. Indentation setup for shell type bash Configured using:  ‘configure —with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application  Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application  Support/Emacs/site-lisp’ --with-modules --disable-acl  —without-makeinfo CFLAGS=-O2’ Configured features: JPEG RSVG GLIB NOTIFY GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS NS MODULES THREADS LCMS2 Important settings:   value of $LANG: zh_CN.UTF-8   locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Shell-script Minor modes in effect:   sh-electric-here-document-mode: t   ido-everywhere: t   global-hl-line-mode: t   tooltip-mode: t   global-eldoc-mode: t   electric-indent-mode: t   mouse-wheel-mode: t   tool-bar-mode: t   menu-bar-mode: t   file-name-shadow-mode: t   global-font-lock-mode: t   font-lock-mode: t   blink-cursor-mode: t   auto-composition-mode: t   auto-encryption-mode: t   auto-compression-mode: t   line-number-mode: t   transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils sh-script smie executable package easymenu epg-config url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache url-vars windmove ido seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib display-line-numbers hl-line elec-pair time-date china-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/ns-win ns-win ucs-normalize mule-util term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads kqueue cocoa ns lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 225954 6854)  (symbols 48 21886 0)  (miscs 40 555 199)  (strings 32 37144 2102)  (string-bytes 1 980109)  (vectors 16 38848)  (vector-slots 8 826341 2164)  (floats 8 56 60)  (intervals 56 264 0)  (buffers 992 12))